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...Harvard community, but of the president’s office, too. And this doesn’t just apply to potential scandals. Students and Faculty often feel out of the loop in Allston decision making, the Curricular Review, shakeups in administration. Whether or not this perception is warranted, they complain that communication between Mass. Hall and the rest of the University community often comes in the form of press releases, not the raw, meaty documents that real stakeholders at the University expect...
...morbidly obese and vaguely homosexual. The lyrics have an interesting idea—Madonna using theatrical metaphors to disdain an overblown lover—but it goes on for an obscene five and a half minutes. And I mean, does anyone ever really believe these chanteuses when they complain about having their hearts broken? The show is over, Madonna. Say goodbye. Time to get preggers...
...business of stuffing knowledge into cadets is scorned by critics as "the fire-hose school of education." Too often, complain some West Point teachers, students just try to skate by with Cs--"2.0 and go," in cadet slang. "I just feel I'm on a fast-moving train," says Cadet Captain Lissa Young, the ranking female cadet and a top student. "You find yourself groping and grasping for things you'd like to take more time with. The Army breeds an attitude of 'Carry out the order with the approved solution.' Creativity here is stifled by the fear of failure...
...unreality about West Point. Says Ted Sullivan, '79, now a New York stockbroker: "The difference between the regular Army and West Point is light-years." In the Army, West Pointers are sometimes regarded as aloof and cliquish, called ring knockers for ostentatiously flashing their class rings. Non-West Pointers complain about the so-called West Point Protective Association in the Pentagon that favors and promotes academy grads...
...Lakehurst, N.J., where it exploded at its mooring. But such encounters with history are few and infrequent. Mostly he catalogs childhood sights and sounds: his dog Pinky, knickers and knee socks, a backyard igloo in winter, a beach in summer. Occasionally his mother Rose breaks into the narrative to complain about her respectable poverty, her husband's failure as a businessman, his card playing and carousing. Dave Altschuler is part owner of a music store located in Manhattan's Hippodrome theater. He may not be the city's most aggressive merchant, but even Lee lacocca would have had a hard...